Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Hunter

We have a group of great guys, ... We don?t have any egos on this team. We don?t have any jerks on this team. We have a group of guys that makes it fun for everybody to come to work every day.

Heston Blumenthal

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Shandon Anderson

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

Jermaine Dye

We don't have any egos on this team. I think that was what was really special about this club,

Mark Johnson

Part of our message to the players is putting individual egos aside, and playing for the team. At the end of the day, if you win something, it's because everybody was able to sacrifice.

Jeremy Bloom

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

Leroy Foster

Like everyone's been saying, it was a wake-up call. They're playing more as a team now, and you can see it in practice, where before individual egos were getting in the way.

Dave Smith

The only game we've got is the one in front of us. We've really come together and gelled. Everyone knows their role. There are no egos -- we just play. We have a lot of talent.

Timothy Noah

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

Paul Bloom

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

Jon Wooten

We wanted to make it patriotic, yet also grasp the speed at which these guys move.

Edward Kennedy

He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser person and he has a better grasp and understanding about constitutional rights and liberties.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

Sullivan Sykes

People always say that hard work pays off. I never grasped that until now. I worked the hardest I've ever worked -- period.

Susan Yolen

It is hard to get a grasp on how U.S. policy is working in another country. We and he were interested in learning more so we could be better advocates.

Fisher DeBerry

We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.

Marty Hurney

It's just one piece of the puzzle. It's a guideline, but obviously you're looking for players that can come in and grasp the system you're teaching and what you want to do.

Peter Fader

It's not like Sony is going out of business, but there are so many stories to tell about the company's inability to grasp opportunities.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Robin Penn

I think it's f-----g pathetic to be belittling him,

Karl Harrison

I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.

Anne Rice

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

Chris Hadfield

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

Karl Rove

It's pretty pathetic to have the vice president of the United States down here mouthing off,

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.